Yusupovsky Palace on Sadovaya Street , 50-a and Fontanka , 115 in St. Petersburg - the former palace of the Yusupov princes. From November 1, 1810 - the first building of the Institute of the Corps of Railway Engineers . Now it is occupied by the St. Petersburg State University of Communications of the Emperor Alexander I. Not to be confused with the eponymous palace on the Moika .
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| Yusupov Palace on Sadovaya Street | |
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| A country |  Russia |
| City | St. Petersburg |
| Building type | Palace |
| Architectural style | Classicism |
| Architect | Giacomo Quarenghi |
| Founding date | XVIII century |
| Status |  Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. Reg. No. 781520294940006 ( EGROKN ). (Wikigid database) |
The estate of Prince B. G. Yusupov on the Fontanka River in the middle of the 18th century was one of the richest in the city. On the site there was a luxurious baroque palace, in terms of a strongly spread letter N. The building on the high cellars was a combination of a central two-story building and one-story transverse wings connected by single-storey buildings. From the river manor was separated by a trellis trellis. On the sides of the middle driveway, leading from the palace to Sadovaya Street, was located along a large bosket , the centers of which were marked by ponds of figured outlines, connected by a channel. A bridge has been thrown across the canal along the central axis of the complex. From ponds to the edges and corners of bosketov, additional paths bordered with sheared greenery led. The park did not reach Sadovaya Street a little, and the driveway passed between buildings of small manors facing the street that belonged to other owners. In front of the L-shaped Fontanka there was a small garden parlor with gazebos in the plan of the greenhouse. The only image of the palace of that period known today is preserved on the de Saint-Hilaire axonometric plan [1] .
In connection with the laying of the embankment through and the completion of the beautification of the Fontanka shores, the palace was rebuilt in the 1790s for Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov by architect Giacomo Quarenghi . At the same time, the architect retained the main volumetric articulations of the building (elevated center and lower wings), but completely changed in the spirit of the times the decorative solution of the facades and interiors that resulted in a classic design. From the river side, the architect erected additional services and organized a new closed ceremonial courtyard with an entrance from the embankment. Instead of two figured porches, he built an open vestibule with a ramp leading to it in the center of the facade. Corner risalits are tightened with elevated middle balconies decorated with Tuscan columns . The opposite garden façade was decorated with a six - column portico on the terrace at the level of the first floor with a wide one-marque staircase leading to it [2] . The park was redesigned in a landscape style , changing the outlines of the coastline of ponds to free ones and filling an artificial island. On the site of the former Quarenghi conservatory, it envisaged the construction of a small pavilion with an open semicircular niche facing the Fontanka, a small office and a hall on the garden side, separated from the rest of the estate by a fence [3] .
In 1836-1840, a grid was made that encloses the building and the adjacent garden from Sadovaya Street; it was created by the engineers K. Kolman and V. R. Trofimovich.
Notes
- ↑ Axonometric Plan of St. Petersburg, 1765—1773 - SPb. : Kriga, 2003.
- ↑ Pilyavsky V.I. Giacomo Quarenghi. Architect. Painter. - L .: Stroyizdat , Leningrad branch, 1981.
- ↑ Exhibition Catalog of ET. Giacomo Quarenghi. Architectural graphics. - SPb. : Slavia, 1999.